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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
Bat for Lashes
You
Travel
People
Dinner
Nice
Live
East
Out
London
Adrift
Blankets
Feel
House
Lot
Get
Where
Which
Sanctuary
Breathe
Fill
Round
When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
Bat for Lashes
Family
Country
Side
Summers
Visited
Out
See
London
Go
Up
Just
Grew
Place
Which
Little
Dad
Pakistan
Near
Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.
Beeban Kidron
People
Phone
London
Angeles
Pick
Los
Los Angeles
Arrive
Up
Offices
Unfortunately
When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
Beeban Kidron
Job
Photographers
London
Weekend
Had
Gallery
'At Freddie's' takes place in 1960s London at the Temple Stage School for child actors. It has a plot that makes you feel sorry for the people who have to write summaries on the backs of books.
Ben Dolnick
You
People
School
Sorry
Stage
Books
Backs
Plot
London
Temple
Write
Takes
Feel
For The People
Makes
Child
Child Actors
Place
Who
Actor
I didn't actually grow up in London.
Ben Hardy
London
Up
Grow
Grow Up
Actually
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
Ben Kingsley
Religion
Class
Hierarchy
Rigid
London
Like
Still
Certain
Certain Extent
Extent
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
Ben Kingsley
Me
Stage
Ringo
John
London
John Lennon
Write
Songs
Liked
Sing
Heard
Lennon
Used
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Ben Okri
Home
Me
London
Shakespeare
Because
Dickens
Literature
If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.
Ben Schott
Library
Strange
Books
London
Something
Look
Go
Up
Researching
British
I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.
Ben Schott
You
Old
Father
Big
Other
Back
Everyone
Astonishing
Evolution
City
London
Fond
Small
Knew
Look
How
Very
Fan
Used
Map
Each
Belong
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Drive
Every
Corner
London
Motorbike
Grim
Reaper
Round
Why are there not cabs in Edmonton? Why are there cabs in central London but not here? And if they're going to be here, they should be cheaper. And travelcards, they're expensive.
Benjamin Clementine
London
Cheaper
Edmonton
Going
Expensive
Central
Should
Why
Here
I'm from London, and you hardly see stars because of the pollution of light. But in Arizona, there's nothing, so I can see the stars.
Benjamin Clementine
You
Light
Nothing
Stars
See
London
Arizona
Because
Pollution
Hardly
London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli
Travel
Bird
Every
London
Roost
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Old
Live
Every
Everywhere
Easy
London
Part
Terrible
Very
Same
Uneven
Wheelchair
Rome
Pavement
Commuting
Of course London is a fantastic city, but I like Manchester.
Bernardo Silva
City
London
Like
Course
Manchester
Fantastic
It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.
Bill Dedman
Culture
Consider
London
Direct
Paris
Tourists
Come
Surprise
May
Pittsburgh
Capital
Flights
Europe
Many
Here
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
Billy Bragg
Struggle
People
Sense
Mining
Would
London
Some
Knew
Involved
Became
Because
Understand
Were
Want
Pop
Coal
Pop Star
Who
Villages
Star
Why
Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
Music
Me
First
Big
Summer
Introduced
Folk
Guitars
Folk Music
London
Had
Come
First Thing
Cousin
Been
Very
Where
Originally
Thing
Playing
We cannot allow Afghanistan to become again a haven for terrorists who inspire, plan and provide support for attacks like those of 11 September 2001, of 7 July 2005 in London, and more.
Bob Ainsworth
Inspire
Become
September
Those
We Cannot
London
Haven
More
Attacks
Allow
Support
Like
Terrorists
Provide
July
Afghanistan
Cannot
Again
Plan
Who
I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.
Bonnie Tyler
You
Collect
London
Bought
Fair
Traditional
Were
Lot
Antiques
Wall
Hang
Last
There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.
Boris Johnson
Solar
Rest
Own
Solar System
System
London
Idea
Combat
Planet
Starting
Need
I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?
Boris Johnson
Speak
School
Made
Else
Immigrant
London
Eating
Primary
Primary School
Well
Up
Stock
Anyone
Grew
Anyone Else
Placed
Why
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
Boris Johnson
Job
London
Unbelievably
Particularly
Mayor
Taxing
Olympics
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
Boris Johnson
Work
London
Come
Want
Dynamic
Place
Competitive
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